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...Division Series? Baseball begins its month-long playoff tomorrow, and while we may mourn the passing of the days when the first-place team from the American met the champion of the National in one simple Fall Classic, we also know that today baseball's marketing-gone-amok will first make us sit through weeks of lesser contests. Case in point: Atlanta, the team with the Big Leagues' best record, takes on a Houston Astros club that barely won more than it lost. Where's Judge Landis when you need...
...news anchors to play themselves in movies. CNN had been roundly criticized for appearances by 13 CNN on-air personnel in the movie "Contact" delivering fictional news reports about a message from an alien civilization. Earlier, Shaw had appeared in "The Lost World" reporting that dinosaurs had run amok in San Diego. But "Contact" came under special scrutiny because CNN's parent company, Time Warner, also owns Warner Bros., which produced the film. Johnson said he wasn't pressured to lend his journalists to the movie. "It has created a concern among the professional community that we are being manipulated...
...food I ever saw Brad eat in one sitting was at a night game at Fenway Park, where he ordered a hot dog, popcorn, cracker jacks, pretzels and cotton candy. He ate them all. At the time I viewed the indulgence as 12-year-old consumer culture run amok; today, I wonder if the binge might not also have been triggered by the fact that for once that summer, Brad had access to large quantities of food at 9 p.m., after the effects of the Ritalin were beginning to wear off, but before he had received his sleep-inducing pill...
...Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic Jew, was randomly attacked on the street as black mobs ran amok a few hours after a fatal car accident involving a 7-year-old black boy and a Lubavitcher Hasidim motorcade. Although prosecution witnesses testified that Nelson had told friends he was responsible for the murder, defense lawyers countered that police had forced Nelson to confess to the crime under duress...
...other colorful characters and personalities, can't appear as one harmonious cast, a community like those in which we all would like to live in? Why must the Elmo craze be spinning off even more Elmo products and scalpers with the original Tickle Me Elmo dolls still run amok in office pools and newsgroups...